How the success of "Nevermind" ignited a major-label feeding frenzy to find "the next Nirvana, " resulting in the signing of previously way-too-weird-for-a-major-label bands such as underground heroes The Jesus Lizard and Japanese noise-rockers the Boredoms.
Targeted advertising, which directly compares the quality of a branded product with a private-label rival, is also a short-term solution for consumer-goods companies, which are keen to remind their customers why paying more is a good idea.
Like Hansard, Paddy Casey has gone platinum many times over in Ireland, but he hasn't had as many opportunities to find traction here: Amen (So Be It) received a major-label release in 2000 before becoming a find in 99-cent bins from coast to coast, and that's about it.
Not one has been a blockbuster, although Davison says Home Depot (nyse: HD - news - people ) is doing a private-label version of the Magna Jar.
Refusing to see his dream shattered, he secured a big-label record deal, and stood defiantly against a legal challenge from Pop Idol's makers to release his single.
The San Francisco-based startup on Thursday launched Group Buy, a white-label widget containing group-buy offers that anyone can drop into their website.
According to a much-told story, after the show the then-unknown Elvis told the group that, if he ever landed a major-label contract -- he was on Memphis' Sun Records at the time -- he'd have the Jordanaires back him up.
It is not illegal for a doctor to prescribe a drug off-label, that is, for a non-FDA-approved use, but a drug marketer cannot lawfully encourage a doctor to do so.
He has developed a private-label line of chenille clothing that he sells via QVC, the home-shopping channel.
Chris Collins says a gold-label version of the band's 1963 debut album Please Please Me, left to him and his sister, will now go "back in the sock drawer".
For instance, Wal-Mart's analysis of Twitter traffic helped convince it to increase the amount of "Avengers" merchandise it offered when the superhero movie came out last year and to introduce a private-label corn chip in the American Southwest.
Having established Pucci as a go-to label for the red-carpet set, the designer took a left turn and opened his show with the zany swirls.
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Other innovations include placing a QR code on a pill-bottle label that consumers can scan with a smartphone to download a short video with information about the drug.
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According to unnamed sources, Justin Timberlake, a pop star signed to a Sony -controlled label, will be part of a Super Bowl promotion with Pepsi Feb. 3 that will involve free distribution of as many as 1 billion songs through Amazon.com 's DRM-free music store.
The Second Circuit agreed with Caronia and became the first court in the nation to hold that truthful and non-misleading off-label promotional speech is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment and, as a corollary, that off-label promotional speech would not constitute a criminal offense unless the speech was false or misleading.
Still, you would think that Hong Kong would go to say a Hong Kong-born label like Shanghai Tang, a brand that patterns itself after Ralph Lauren, for its uniforms.
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Born in London, but raised in New York, he attended Harvard University, where he studied film and animation before dropping out in the mid-1990s to help launch a hip-hop music label, Rawkus Records.
Poshmark also handles credit card processing and sends the seller a fully filled-out shipping label once a buyer clicks buy.
If the risk is obvious, there's no need for a warning label--hence, steak knives don't have them.
He had the cash to start a hip-hop label, but he needed talent.
Organic Monitor says the question remains if a single eco-label umbrella will eventually emerge to help integrate many existing certifications.
There's a huge new distribution center for the National Retailer Children's Place, two new metal tube manufacturers, a high-tech label maker.
In the two-and-a-half years between major-label releases, Lil Wayne whetted his fans' appetites by giving away more songs than anyone can count.
But attempts to convince people to look for a quality-assurance label has led to fake versions of those labels being stuck on bottles.
She probably could have landed a high-end label partnership, but why bother when her target would never shell out that kind of money?
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Most recently a Non-GMO label hit the shelves, and I anticipate new antibiotic free meat certification to pop up at any minute.
Initially refusing to capitulate to Earl Grey purists, only four months later the tea company reintroduced the original under a new label - Earl Grey The Classic Edition.
With this project she will develop a new label-free biomolecular detection method, based on a technique called Plasmon Resonance Energy Transfer (PRET), to monitor biochemical pathways involved in the differentiation of stem cells.
Though he left Def Jam in 2007 and a year later launched Roc Nation, a joint-venture label with concert promoter Live Nation, his Def Jam masters are scheduled to revert to him in 2014.
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